Sébastien Meyer and Arnaud Vaillant left Courreges

The other day it became known that the French Fashion House Courreges will survive a number of personnel changes.

The design duo of Sébastien Meyer and Arnaud Vaillant will leave Courreges after two years of work. The collections created by the designers were presented in Colette, Matches Fashion and Bergdorf Goodman. Designers Sébastien Meyer and Arnaud Vaillant headed Courreges Fashion House in 2015. Before that, the designers worked on their own brand Coperni Femme. By the time the designers headed the brand, it belonged not to André Courreges, but to Jacques Bagner and Frederick Tarlotin. The brand Courreges was sold in 2011. Last January Andre Kurgezh died. Designers duo was able to preserve its heritage and iconic elements – futuristic design, references to the architecture of Le Corbusier and the cosmos.

The official statement said that the creative directors Sébastien Meyer and Arnaud Vaillant decided to leave the Courreges Fashion House together. Who will take the post of the new creative director in Courreges is still unknown. The president of the brand promised to inform the name of the successor as soon as he was appointed.

The last collection of Sébastien Meyer and Arnaud Vaillantfor the Courreges Fashion House was a collection of the fall / winter season 2017. Designers showed it not on the podium, but in the format of the book.

Designers Sébastien Meyer and Arnaud Vaillanthave made a huge contribution to the development of the Courreges brand. When they were just starting to work, they set a goal – to revive and modernize Courrèges. And the designers coped with the task, presenting an extraordinary approach to creating collections. The debut collection of Sébastien Meyer and Arnaud Vaillant became the collection Spring / Summer 2016. Designers instead of a full collection presented only 15 subjects in 15 uses of materials, including suede and leather. A knitted overall will act as a canvas for the entire collection.

Since then, Sébastien Meyer and Arnaud Vaillan have continued to create simple images in a minimalistic style. Repeating the fundamental values of the brand. According to the designers, in the time of a huge amount of information and multiple choice, such collections are exactly what needs.